: The Law of Unintended Consequences
Final lesson with Helen this academic year was yesterday. Now, as you may have noticed, we've placed a lot of focus on high notes with more than one eye on extending my range upwards, although we've slightly flipped that round lately as we've worked on Sarah McLachlan songs (an octave down, natch) which seem to work extremely well for me.
Did a range check at the end of this lesson. Guess what?
D2-E4.
That's not a typo. My range has actually stretched a third down with no corresponding move upwards. That wasn't in the script! I'll take it, although F2-G4 would be a darned sight more useful - but I suspect that I'm not really supporting my high notes as well as I'd like (Helen picked up on that in the lesson, too) and it may well be that if I can get that sorted, the upward expansion will come. Remember, I've sung G4 before...
In other shock news, I'm considering not living on my own, but with one other person. Only one, mind, but at least half of the savings that can be had from living in a large student house (relative to living alone) can be attained with just one person to share with, and I've been informed that many postgraduate students are awaiting funding news and by implication are by no means all tied to a given location yet. With postgraduates rather more likely to meet my requirements as housemates, this could be very promising. More on this as it happens...
Final lesson with Helen this academic year was yesterday. Now, as you may have noticed, we've placed a lot of focus on high notes with more than one eye on extending my range upwards, although we've slightly flipped that round lately as we've worked on Sarah McLachlan songs (an octave down, natch) which seem to work extremely well for me.
Did a range check at the end of this lesson. Guess what?
D2-E4.
That's not a typo. My range has actually stretched a third down with no corresponding move upwards. That wasn't in the script! I'll take it, although F2-G4 would be a darned sight more useful - but I suspect that I'm not really supporting my high notes as well as I'd like (Helen picked up on that in the lesson, too) and it may well be that if I can get that sorted, the upward expansion will come. Remember, I've sung G4 before...
In other shock news, I'm considering not living on my own, but with one other person. Only one, mind, but at least half of the savings that can be had from living in a large student house (relative to living alone) can be attained with just one person to share with, and I've been informed that many postgraduate students are awaiting funding news and by implication are by no means all tied to a given location yet. With postgraduates rather more likely to meet my requirements as housemates, this could be very promising. More on this as it happens...